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The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray

Apalachee High School,
located in Winder, Georgia
witnessed an active shooter,
whereby the alleged lone gunman
(actually just a teenager of fourteen years)
killed four people and injured nine more
the latter hospitalized with...

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Categories: sprint, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Caregiving Stories Continued
Wounded Sacred Dementia

My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.

My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an auspicious five
on the day I first saw her,
and promptly rejected...

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Categories: sprint, caregiving, health, humor, love, parents,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Calvin
"I hope you enjoy this true story.  While I'm unable to emulate Hitchcock, the tale reminds me of that great director." ~ The First Grader

In 1965, on a corner lot, four or five children,...

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Categories: sprint, childhood, mystery,
Form: Free verse
The Lizard Man
It spread its grizzly legs on the whitewashed wall
Firmly baked in the early summer heat 
Spitting perspiration dripping from the white crisps ceiling
While I cling onto a sensational feelings
Night has casted shadows upon night
With images...

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Categories: sprint, business, character, community, dedication, international, leadership, strength,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1
Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct, 
a stitched pigskin ball, the grail of the Fall
to fumble it means...

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Categories: sprint, america, sports, war,
Form: Epic



Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 5
The Lay of The Best Man - Part Five


Have you heard about the bespectacled man who wore his glasses to bed?
Because when he awoke mornings his dreams were all blurry in his head.
And what about...

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Categories: sprint, humanity, men,
Form: Lay
Premium Member Chapter 159-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Festive Family Time - same day
Date:  June  2051

Damian returned to buoyant activities 
Out to the front when he saw Ras Madan 
Approaching happily straight to
Damian. Damian was thinking 
"Waa well I just wanted the family 
That lived here."...

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Categories: sprint, allusion, birth, black love, family,
Form: Alliteration
The Uninviting Feeling
I'm not at all innocent...when you make 
me hurt inside
I'm getting over you...but I'm not giving up 
completely, though you are not present in 
my life
It rips my high hopes into shreds of 
worthlessness
I will...

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Categories: sprint, beautiful
Form: Free verse
When I Bleed Out In Front Of You
{"Hadn’t you known, or care to acknowledge that I am wholly fond of my life as of right now? 
I’m in love with the lighting that shoots and grazes my neighbor's balcony as I sit...

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Categories: sprint, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, betrayal, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse
The Day Murphy Came To Town
One day in early summer Murphy the Irishman came to town,
He rode upon a matted mule , his face was burnt and brown,
The corks that hung from his bushman's hat persuaded flies to keep away,
But...

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Categories: sprint, humorous,
Form: Verse
Annual Fair Preparation
Every year our community gets together at the annual church fair. This year they have changed the format with some new events and dropping some of the old events that appeared a little dangerous. How...

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Categories: sprint, community, games,
Form: Rhyme
Her
My love for you is brighter than the Sun
My heart is addicted and you are my drug,
I am committed to this like prison but I am not convicted 
Because my soul has risen, you are...

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Categories: sprint, anniversary, beauty, memory, missing you, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Devotion Poem, Like Snow Leopards
Devotion Poem, Like Snow Leopards

(Written for Jim Eslinger)

Out on one of the Great Plains of Yahweh, It seems
You may have gone on a hunt, or a long searching.
But no matter the reason, in the time...

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Categories: sprint, christian, husband, imagery, love, wife,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hiding In Plain Sight
I had my plan memorized, 
and I picked the right time.
I walked into the bank 
when there was no line.
I walked up to the teller 
and presented a note.
She hadn’t lived my life, 
you see,...

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Categories: sprint, adventure, fantasy, hope, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Swange
The moon has groaned home;

And soon the shadow’s drum,

Resonates the rhythmic silhouette,

To the ferocious pains of the spine;

Hear the heavy throbs of the drum,

The panting steps of the trumpet,

And the singing sage of the flute.

See...

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Categories: sprint, 11th grade, abuse, africa,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Scottish Wild Cat Giving Facts of Its Life
I am a big admirer of all large cats, one of my favourites being the Scottish Wild Cat.
It is one of the wildest of all cats and will fight to the death to protect its...

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Categories: sprint, animal, cat, nature, planet,
Form: Narrative
a tree in love
A tree in love

By the old road, before it meets a widened way
 in a nearby stands two trees close together
 we can see they are related 
yes, mother and daughter
The mother, although taller, leans...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sprint, age, allah, allusion, anti bullying, cinderella,
Form: Blank verse
Poem Xxii - Chameleon
Black. White. Blue. Pink. Orange. I'll blend in. Tall, short, cold, warm. I'll blend in. She likes to remain calm, she likes to scream or maybe even lean. I'll blend in. People always playing cautious...

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Categories: sprint, adventure, girl, lust,
Form: Free verse
A Midsummer Night's Beach
When I was a girl, still on the island
I’d sit in the sand
and brood
and revel
in what I thought was utter enlightenment
a teenage rebel
with dime-store refinement
We were all this way, and there is no shame
In the...

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Categories: sprint, beauty, color, creation, sea, summer, truth, youth,
Form: Free verse
Entrepreneur
In a sense everything is a seed of it's successor
The universe is change, life is judgement
Those aren't my words, they're a famous author
The rest of these are and what I think he meant
Before you demur...

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Categories: sprint, books, change, culture, encouraging, inspiration, society, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Sometimes I
Sometimes I...sometimes I wish I could combust
burst into flames, spontaneously erupt; magma
Sometimes I...
sometimes I just wish emptily, heavily
I was someone else, something better
but all the wishing I do
there's not a single one that will bother...

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Categories: sprint, imagery, lost, sorrow, , 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leap of Faith
As the man on the roof, took two steps towards the edge, he was unexpectedly stopped by the sound of a bright and familiar voice, down below.
     "I thought you were...

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Categories: sprint, family, growth, jobs, moving on,
Form: Narrative
Chasing After An Illusion
It feels like yesterday when I just got off the plane and when I looked around, there was not a drop, sprinkle or shower of rain to be found; the earth was immensely dry and...

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Categories: sprint, adventure, business, community, confidence, future, giving, health,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Redeeming the Time
To each of us
Whose origins are from the dust,
An allotment of TIME is freely given
For us to love, to care, and to share.

We know neither quantity nor quality.
TIME has been defined as a period during
Which...

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Categories: sprint, christian, faith, god, time,
Form: Rhyme
The Tale of Two Air Heads
I had two cousins Mike and Ike who were air heads that stole
using their slippery butterfingers to snatch up anything in sight. 
They thought they were clever smarties, but one crazy night
they were driving and...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sprint, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things